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FRB’s Land Rights and Food Security program, in Sengerema, Tanzania, aims to protect farmers from outside land acquisition by training them on securing titles to their land, and educating them on improved agricultural practices to increase their productivity.

“I’m honored to work with FRB and I’m so proud that the John Deere Foundation has partnered with them, as well. It’s a great combination of skills to make lasting changes in the world.” - Arlyn Schipper, Conrad, Iowa

Arlyn Schipper is not only a valued customer of John Deere, but he’s also doing his part to help provide solutions for world hunger. And he’s doing so through a relationship with an organization called the Foods Resource Bank.

Doña Nereyda is a nutrionist and enthusiastic speaker from Nicaragua. Recently, she began an adventure through the mountains, with FRB's Nicaragua - Farmer program, to share the value of eating fresh and local foods. Read her story here!

This month, headlines have been flooded with the most recent updates on the Israel-Hamas conflict. While these updates are important, we don't often hear the voices of those who are hungry, exhausted and displaced.

Catholic Relief Services recently held a blog carnival surrounding the Farmer to Farmer program on their website. We want to highlight the work they are doing as one of Foods Resource Bank's parter organzations and celebrate with them in the successes of

Using IV equipment from the local hospital, and a few plastic bottles, Pedro is adapting to the unpredictable challenges of climate change in Nicaragua. Read on!

FRB's Nicaragua - Boaco Program works in paternship with World Renew to encourage farmers despite the increasing challenges of a changing climate. Read the origninal story, here, provided by World Renew!

Participants in FRB's Palestine/Gaza program are learning to raise rabbits in order to improve their family's income and health status. The Hashem's use the money from the sale of these cotton-tailed critters to pay for school uniforms and supplies for their seven children. Read their story here!

The Sierra Leone West program works with smallholder farmers who live in the area of a former Internal Displaced Person's camp during the 1991-2002 civil war. Through the cultivation of pineapple, farmers are integrated into the supply chains of export-oriented processing companies.

Thanks to new farming technologies that make better use of their hilly land in the mountainous tribal area in the country’s northeast, farmers like Mr. Omoilo and Mrs. Dibi who participate in FRB’s India-Patharkhmah program are harvesting more food for home consumption and income.

Mrs. Dibi is a poor farmer with two sons who farms a small plot of land her parents gave her at the time of her marriage. She has participated in the farmers club program in her village since 2009, and, after attending various trainings through the years, she is practicing several of the methods she’s learned in order to take full advantage of her farmland.

FRB's Laos - Xieng Khouang program is doing exceptionally well after 5 years of funding. The project has exceeded expectations and is growing quickly! As a result, FRB will phase out funding for this program with confidence that these 29 communities in Northeast Laos are well on their way toward lasting food security. Read on to learn how they're doing it!